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Bloomberg maintains an excellent dashboard that tracks vaccination in the US and worldwide ([1]). It shows that California is one of the slowest states with only 37% of received vaccine administered. Top five states are North Dacota (77%), West Virginia (74%), Oregon (61%), South Dacota (61%) and Texas (60%).

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

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As a Republican in Washington State, I have a respect for Oregon's Democrats - they work hard for their citizenry.

I don't know that percentage of received vaccine administered is quite the right metric: I tend to think doses administered per capita is the key number.

But whatever number you look at, California is a disgrace. We've fucked this colossally. The only states that are worse than we are are poor, rural, and low education.

> The only states that are worse than we are are poor, rural, and low education.

So are all of the top states, to be fair, excepting maybe Oregon (those are somewhat loose terms at a state level).

It's not really true that all of them are: Alaska and North Dakota are actually quite wealthy per capita due to petroleum. Connecticut is also one of the states handling the vaccination quite well, and it's quite urban. But a number of the states doing well with vaccinations are quite poor and rural, and that just makes it all the more damning that California is doing so terribly poorly.

As far as I can tell, it's not anything particularly to do with any demographic factor: other big states like New York and Texas are doing much better than California. States that are both deeply red and deeply blue are doing much better than California. California is just... failing. We're underperforming every state that might reasonably be a comparator.

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